State Crime In The Global Age

Author : William J. Chambliss,Raymond Michalowski,Ronald Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134025626

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State Crime in the Global Age by William J. Chambliss,Raymond Michalowski,Ronald Kramer Pdf

State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street crime. The topics covered include the crimes of empire, illegal war, the bombing of civilians, state sanctioned torture, state sacrifice of human lives, and judicial wrongdoing. The book breaks new ground through its examination of the ways globalization has intensified potentials for state crime, as well as bringing novel theoretical understandings of the state to the study of state crime, and exploring strategies for confronting state crime. This book, while containing much that is of interest to scholars of state crime, is designed to be accessible to students and others who are concerned with the ways individuals, social groups, and whole nations are victimized by the misuse of state power.

Author : David Fidler,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804750295

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Biosecurity in the Global Age by David Fidler,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin Pdf

"The renewed threat of biological weapons highlights the importance of crafting policy responses informed by the rule of law. This book explores patterns in recent governance initiatives and advocates building a "global biosecurity concert" as a way to address the threats presented by biological weapons and infectious diseases in the early 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tim Hall,Vincenzo Scalia
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781786438676

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A Research Agenda for Global Crime by Tim Hall,Vincenzo Scalia Pdf

This multidisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars explores many pressing issues related to global crime. The book opens with essays that look across this diverse terrain and then moves on to consider specific areas including organised crime, cyber-crime, war-crimes, terrorism, state and private violence, riots and political protest, prisons, sport and crime and counterfeit goods. The book emphasises the centrality of crime to the contemporary global world and mobilises diverse disciplinary positions to help understand and address this.

Author : Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317082064

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Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age by Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic Pdf

Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age addresses the question of why state weakness in the global era persists. It debunks a common assumption that state weakness is a stop-gap on the path to state failure and state collapse. Informed by a globalization perspective, the book shows how state weakness is frequently self-reproducing and functional. The interplay of global actors, policies and norms is analyzed from the standpoint of their internalization in a weak state through transnational networks. Contributors examine the reproduction of partial and discriminatory rule at the heart of persistent state weakness, drawing on a wide geographical range of case studies including the Middle East, the Balkans, the post-Soviet states and sub-Saharan Africa. The study of state-weakening dynamics related to institutional incapacity, colonial and war legacies, legitimacy gaps, economic informality, democratization and state-building provides an insight into durability and resilience of weak states in the global age.

Author : Dawn Rothe,Christopher W. Mullins
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780813549002

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State Crime by Dawn Rothe,Christopher W. Mullins Pdf

Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions.

Author : Dawn Rothe,David O. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135005870

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Crimes of Globalization by Dawn Rothe,David O. Friedrichs Pdf

This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that, to date, have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and criminal justice: crimes of globalization. This term refers to the hugely harmful consequences of the policies and practices of international financial institutions – principally in the global South. A case is made for characterizing these policies and practices specifically as crime. Although there is now a substantial criminological literature on transnational crimes, crimes of states and state-corporate crimes, crimes of globalization intersect with, but are not synonymous with, these crimes. Identifying specific reasons why students of crime and criminal justice should have an interest in this topic, this text also identifies underlying assumptions, defines key terms, and situates crimes of globalization within the criminological enterprise. The authors also define crimes of globalization and review the literature to date on the topic; review the current forms of crimes of globalization; outline an integrated theory of crimes of globalization; and identify the challenges of controlling the international financial institutions that perpetrate crimes of globalization, including the role of an emerging Global Justice Movement. The authors of this book have published widely on white collar crime, crimes of states, state-corporate crime and related topics. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of crime and criminal justice who, the authors argue, need to attend to emerging forms of crime that arise specifically out of the conditions of globalization in our increasingly globalized, rapidly changing world.

Author : Elizabeth Stanley,Jude McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415691932

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State Crime and Resistance by Elizabeth Stanley,Jude McCulloch Pdf

This text recognizes that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such crimes may be contested, prevented, challenged or stopped.

Author : Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412820363

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Controlling State Crime by Jeffrey Ian Ross Pdf

Academic research on state crime has focused on the illegal actions of individuals and organizations (i.e., syndicates and corporations). Interchangeably labeled governmental crime, delinquency, illegality, or lawlessness, official deviance and misconduct, crimes of obedience, and human rights violations, state crime has largely been considered in relation to insurgent violence or threats to national security. Generally, it has been seen as a phenomenon endemic to authoritarian countries in transitional and lesser developed contexts. We need look no further than today's headlines to see the evidence of state crime. Rwanda, where government troops massacred countless Hutus and Tutsis, governmental atrocities in Kosovo, at the hands of the Yugoslavian Army, and East Timor where both individuals and property have been decimated, largely perpetrated by the Indonesian military. The study of how to control state crime has been difficult. There are definitional, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological problems, as well as difficulties in designing of practical methods to abolish, combat, control or resist this type of behavior. Jeffrey Ian Ross reviews these shortcomings, then develops a preliminary model of ways to control state crime. His intention is stimulating scholarly research and debate, but also encouraging progressive-minded policymakers and practitioners who work for governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The hope is that they will reflect upon the methods they advocate or use to minimize state transgressions. This new edition will be of compelling interest to students of political science and criminology, as well as general readers interested in human rights, state crime, and world affairs.

Author : Penny Green,Tony Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317280057

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State Crime and Civil Activism by Penny Green,Tony Ward Pdf

State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries – Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and how they document and criticise wrongdoing by governments. It documents the dialectical process by which repression stimulates and shapes the forces of resistance against it. Drawing on over 350 interviews with activists, this book discusses their motives; the tactics they use to withstand and challenge repression; and the legal and other norms they draw upon to challenge the state, including various forms of law and religious teaching. It analyses the relation between political activism and charitable work, and the often ambivalent views of civil society organisations towards violence. It highlights struggles over land as one of the key areas of state and corporate crime and civil resistance. The interviews illustrate and enrich the theoretical premise that civil society plays a vital part in defining, documenting and denouncing state crime. They show the diverse and vibrant forms that civil society takes in a widely varied group of countries. This book will be of much interest to undergraduate and postgraduate social science students studying criminology, international relations, political science, anthropology and development studies. It will also be of interest to human rights defenders, NGOs and civil society.

Author : P. Knepper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230251120

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The Invention of International Crime by P. Knepper Pdf

We live in the age of international crime but when did it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914), exploring issues such as 'world-shrinking' changes in transportation, communication and commerce, and concerns about alien criminality, white slave trading and anarchist outrages.

Author : Monaghan, Mark,Prideaux, Simon
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447316749

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State Crime and Immorality by Monaghan, Mark,Prideaux, Simon Pdf

This book begins with the concept of the ideal state as a single, functioning whole that ensures uniformity in the name of legitimacy. It then goes on to show the many ways that states fall away from the ideal, often because of the actions of the powerful and connected—and the consequences of those failures. Looking at everything from invasions of other nations to consolidated media power,State Crime and Immorality is the first book to draw a clear line between conventional criminality and organized state crime and to directly confront the problem of illegitimate actions among the elite in society and government.

Author : Daniel Trottier,Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317655473

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Social Media, Politics and the State by Daniel Trottier,Christian Fuchs Pdf

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.

Author : Lee Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032599453

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Schooling and Citizenship in a Global Age by Lee Anderson Pdf

Author : Dawn Rothe
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739126714

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State Criminality by Dawn Rothe Pdf

State crimes are historically and contemporarily ubiquitous and result in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide during the 20th century in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Albania, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regions claimed the lives of tens of millions and rendered many more homeless, imprisoned, and psychologically and physically damaged. Despite the gravity of crimes committed by states and political leaders, until recently these harms have been understudied relative to conventional street crimes in the field of criminology. Over the past two decades, a growing number of criminologists have conducted rigorous research on state crime and have tried to disseminate it widely including attempts to develop courses that specifically address crimes of the state. Referencing a broad range of cases of state crime and international institutions of control, State Criminality provides a general framework and survey-style discussion of the field for teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and serves as a useful general reference point for scholars of state crime.

Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown,Harold Trinkunas,Shadi Hamid
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815731900

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Militants, Criminals, and Warlords by Vanda Felbab-Brown,Harold Trinkunas,Shadi Hamid Pdf

" Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors that control local territory and render public services that the nation-state cannot or will not provide. This fascinating book takes the reader around the world to areas where national governance has broken down—or never really existed. In these places, the vacuum has been filled by local gangs, militias, and warlords, some with ideological or political agendas and others focused primarily on economic gain. Many of these actors have substantial popularity and support among local populations and have developed their own enduring institutions, often undermining the legitimacy of the national state. The authors show that the rest of the world has more than a passing interest in these situations, in part because transborder crime and terrorism often emerge but also because failed states threaten international interests from trade to security. This book also poses, and offers answers for, the question: How should the international community respond to local orders dominated by armed nonstate actors? In many cases outsiders have taken the short-term route—accepting unsavory local actors out of expediency—but at the price of long-term instability or damage to human rights and other considerations. From Africa and the Middle East to Asia and Latin America, the local situations highlighted in this book are, and will remain, high on today's international agenda. The book makes a unique contribution to global understanding of how those situations developed and what can be done about them. This title is part of the Geopolitics in the 21st Century series. "